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Danbury based IMS Health acquires Belgian firm

Dirk Perrefort| on May 8, 2014

DANBURY -- Locally based IMS Health announced on Thursday the acquisition of a Belgium-based firm officials said will help the company expand its offerings to hospitals and other health care organizations.

Officials with IMS Health, a global information and technology services company for the health care industry, declined to comment Thursday on the financial terms of the deal with Forcea, the Belgian provider of business intelligence applications and analytics.

Tor Constantino, a spokesman for Danbury-based IMS, said the acquisition will allow it to further enhance offerings to clients through IMS ONE, the company's intelligent cloud-based platform that provides health care data to customers.

The platform allows customers to securely access data and make more insightful real world decisions.

IMS has a huge collection of health care information that's available to clients through the platform including, according to company filings, 85 percent of total prescription sales and 400 million global patient records that have a patient's identities removed.

Last month, the company raised $1.4 billion during one of the largest IPOs in the United States so far this year.

Constantino declined to comment on whether the company is eyeing additional acquisitions.